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Ms. Springett heard a baby deer cry near her home. Just days earlier she had spotted it and photographed it. But now it seemed that somehow the deer had become orphaned or been abandoned. She waited three days for mom to return, but when the fawn was close to death she bought her in and began feeding her goat’s milk. She kept the baby deer close to her pet dog, Kate, for warmth and watched in amazement as she immediately adopted it. The friendship of Kate, the Great Dane, and Pippin the deer grew with time and continues till this day. Watch this amazing video of this unusual love story and share it with your friends.

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As the quintessential morning ‘comfort food,’ coffee is consumed to the tune of 350 million cups per day in America. And for good reason. Aside from the solace of a warm cup in your hand, coffee offers an energy boost, along with improved mood and enhanced concentration. But due to its high caffeine content and addictive qualities, coffee often gets a bad rap. And with so much conflicting information out there, it’s hard to know what to believe.

So here’s the good news:

Combat Depression and Parkinsons: All coffee drinkers know that a good cup of Joe leaves you feeling a little bit happier than before you drank it. This is, of course, primarily due to the caffeine, which affects the feel-good neurotransmitters in the brain, serotonin and dopamine. The Nurses’ Health Study has shown that women who drank 4+ cups of coffee each day had a 20% reduction in depression compared with women who drank 1 cup or less. And speaking of dopamine, the neurotransmitter that is deficient in Parkinson’s disease, studies show a 30% reduced risk of developing Parkinsonʼs disease among coffee drinkers, again due the caffeine and subsequent boost in dopamine. Continue reading →

Challenge Day is a non-profit organization that helps people learn to connect through powerful, life-changing programs in their schools and communities. The day-long, interactive Challenge Day program provides teens and adults with tools to tear down the walls of separation, and inspires participants to live, study, and work in an encouraging environment of acceptance, love, and respect.

Using highly interactive and energetic activities, Challenge Day Leaders guide participants through a carefully designed exploration of the ways people separate from each other, and model tools for creating connection and building community.

Challenge Day programs increase self-esteem, help shift dangerous peer pressure to positive peer support, and reduce the acceptability of teasing, oppression, and all forms of violence. Our programs inspire youth and communities to Be the Change they wish to see in the world, and challenge others to do the same.

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60 year old Stamatis Moraitis felt something was terribly wrong. He seemed out of breath and just climbing the stairs seemed impossible. He took the rest of the day off and went to see his doctor. After looking at the X-rays, his doctor confirmed that he had lung cancer. He gave him no more than nine months to live. Other doctors also confirmed this diagnosis and so Moraitis packed up and left for his native Greece.

The reason? Funerals were much cheaper in Ikaria, Greece, from where he came from. He and his wife moved in with his parents, and he waited to die. Spring turned to summer, and summer turned to fall. Instead of dying he felt better. Slowly his health continued to improve and he came to the realization that he was not dying after all. Today more than 35 years later Moraitis is 97 years old and still alive.

The story of Moraitis would be nothing more than an inspiring tale except that the island of Ikaria is now known as the “Island where people forget to die”. People on this island reach their 90’s at two and half times the rate of those in the US and the rate of dementia is one fourth. People here are living longer and having a better quality of life.

Scientists have been studying residents of Ikaria and other similar pockets of population all over the world where longevity is unusually long. (This includes the Japanese island of Okinawa and Loma Linda in California.) Here is what they have found: Continue reading →